Select the forum you wish to prune (or
Select the forum you wish to prune (or leave it set to All Forums to prune en masse), and then click the Look up Forum button. This takes you to the screen shown in Figure 10-17. Enter the maximum number of days for inactive topics in your forum to live, and then click the Do Prune button. The process may take a few seconds, as this is a database- intensive step. When you reenter your forum, you should see that all of the inactive topics past the maximum age you specified are now gone. Repeat the process for each forum you wish to trim down. With any luck, you ll be running a little leaner and maybe even a smidgen faster. CHAPTER 10 SECURING AND MAINTAINING PHPBB 315 Figure 10-16. Selecting a forum to prune Figure 10-17. The second part of pruning a forum, where you determine the cutoff Note Pruning both manual and automatic will not remove announcement or sticky posts, as those are considered having elevated importance and are designed to last a long time. To remove these posts, you ll need to manually delete them, or edit the first post in the topic and change the status of the posts you want to remove to Normal before you run the prune operation. Pruning Forums Automatically You can also set individual forums to automatically prune posts without user intervention. This option can be set while you are creating a forum or after the fact. Figure 10-18 shows an example of editing an existing forum. Figure 10-18. Editing a forum, paying close attention to the automatic pruning options
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